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news Crypto startup Bitwise Asset Management has proposed a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) that it says would address the regulatory concerns that doomed previous attempts. The company has filed an initial registration form proposing the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Trust with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund would track the Bitwise Bitcoin…

Bitcoin's price has been positively correlated with the size of the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) balance sheet over the past eight years. The PBOC is considering a massive stimulus of up to 1 trillion yuan ($142 billion) to bolster its economy, leading to a surge in Asian stock markets, including a notable rise in

Robinhood saw more crypto trading volume in the fourth quarter.The company beat both earnings and sales estimates for the quarter.Its peer, Coinbase, is reporting this week and could see similar results.Robinhood (HOOD), the popular trading platform, said in a statement that its crypto revenue rose 10% versus a year earlier in the fourth quarter, reaching

Raft, a stablecoin issuer whose flagship token is backed by staked ether (stETH) from Lido, crossed $55 million in total value locked today, a sign of strength for the roughly three week-old protocol.Raft’s TVL has increased 4,595% since June 5, growing even as other protocols building stETH-backed stablecoins have stalled, such as Lybra, whose TVL…

Oct 13, 2020 at 15:15 UTCUpdated Oct 13, 2020 at 15:16 UTC(Joshua Sortino/Unsplash)Ethereum Is Building the Internet of ValueThe internet is at the cusp of entering a new phase, one where entrenched rulers are dethroned, more power is reclaimed by individuals and value moves as freely as cat GIFs.To understand why we need a better…

Israel’s intelligence community is investigating a mysterious but failed hack that targeted about 20 Israeli cryptocurrency executives in early September, according to Haaretz.Executives reportedly lost access to their Telegram and email clients, and consequently had their identities stolen, in the likely SMS spoofing incident that only appears to have hit users of the telecom giant…

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, and rival KuCoin have been registered with India's Financial Intelligence Unit, the most senior official of the unit, which falls under the nation's Finance Ministry, told CoinDesk.This is the first time offshore crypto related entities have been approved by the country's anti-money laundering unit.KuCoin paid a fine of $41,000

Sep 30, 2020 at 14:57 UTCUpdated Sep 30, 2020 at 15:44 UTCFor as long as there have been computers in enterprises, there have been people working on how to make machine-to-machine commerce a reality. While the world of blockchain is only now embracing smart contracts for enterprise usage, programmable, machine-to-machine commerce has been around since…

MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), the business-intelligence software company that holds so much bitcoin on its balance sheet that it’s become something of a proxy for the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, said it added almost 9,000 bitcoins to its holdings in the the third quarter, bringing its total to 114,042.The company said it purchased the bitcoin by “successfully…